A photograph Tom Petty displays when the Heartbreakers perform "American Girl" onstage has taken on new meaning for some transgender advocates.

Petty regularly projects pictures of a diverse group of women when they perform the song, a radio favorite from 1977's Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. One of the images features Alexis Arquette, a transgender actor who died of AIDS complications in 2016. Her appearance on Wednesday during Petty's two-night stand at the Forest Hills Stadium in New York happened just hours after President Donald Trump posted a tweet banning transgender citizens from serving in the military.

PageSix hailed the projected image as "a political statement" under a headline that read: "Tom Petty Stands Up for Transgender Rights at Concert." The Gothamist was more circumspect, saying the displayed image was "perhaps a nod to President Trump's controversial decision."